Wheel-hub



(No Model.)

L. BARNES, S1". 8v G. O. BARNES.

- WHEEL HUB. No. 563,730. Patented July 14, 1896,

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LUCIEN BARNES, SRJAND CHARLES O. BARNES, OF SYRACUSE, NEW YORK.

WHEEL-HUB.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 563,730, dated July 14, 1896.

Application filed August 16, 1896. Serial No. 559,489. (No model.)

To all? whom, it may concern:

Be it known that we, LUOIEN BARNES, Six, and CHARLES C). BARNES, of Syracuse, in the county of Onondaga, in the State of New York, have invented new and useful Im provements in lVheel-Hubs, of which the following, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to the construction of bicycle-wheels, and more particularly to the construction of hubs and attachment of the wire spokes thereto.

The object of this invention is to obtain the maximum spread and resultant bracing position of the spokes of the wheelby simple and inexpensive means and without increasingthe length of the hub; and to that end the invention consists in the improved construction and combination of parts, as hereinafter more fully described, and set forth in the claim.

In the annexed drawings, Figures 1 and 2 are side views of wheel-hubs embodying our invention, portions of said hubs being broken away to better illustrate the invention; and Fig. 3 is an enlarged transverse section on line X X in Fig. 1.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

A denotes the wheel-hub, which is composed of a metal tube, usually of steel.

13 designates the axle, which is usually provided on each end with the conical bearing a, by which it rides upon the antifriction-balls h b, seated in the combined bushing and bearing-cups c c, secured within the ends of the tube or hub A.

Our invention resides in the following construction and combination of parts, viz: The

tube A we form with circumferential hollow beads e 2, adjacent to the extremities of the tube, and provide in each a circumferential row of perforations i for the reception of the inner ends of the wire spokes d d, which we bend into lateral offsets or hooks (2 cl, so as to lock on the inner side of the tube and effectually tie the spokes thereto.

Approximately tangentially upon the external peripheries of the aforesaid combined bushing and bearing-cup lie the aforesaid offsets cl cl to prevent said bent portions of the spokes from becoming straightened and being drawn out of the tube by the strain exerted on the spokes when the bicycle is in use, said cup extending past the cavities of the aforesaid beads c e.

What we claim as our invention is The combination of a wheel-hub composed of a metal tube formed with circumferential hollow beads adjacent to the extremities of the tube and provided with a circumferential row of perforations in each of said beads, a combined bushing and ball-bearing cup formed in one piece inserted in each end of the tube and extending past the cavity of the bead, and the spokes inserted in the perforations of the beads and terminated with lateral offsets inside of the beads, said offsets lying approximately tangentially on the external peripheries of the aforesaid cups substantially as set forth and shown.

In testimony whereof We have hereunto signed our names this 6th day of August, 1895.

LUOIEN BARNES, SR. [L. s] CHARLES O. BARNES. [n s] \Vitncsses J. J. LAASS, O. L. BENDIXON. 

